Quotes about velvet
A collection of quotes on the topic of velvet, likeness, look, black.
Quotes about velvet
“What is a throne? — a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state”
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public — people wash their dirty linen at home. France has more need of me than I of France.
Statement to the Senate (1814) He echoes here the remark attributed to Louis XIV L'état c'est moi ( "The State is I" or more commonly: "I am the State.")
Variant translation: A throne is only a bench covered with velvet...
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Source: Letter to Isaac Disraeli (September 1826), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume I. 1804–1859 (1929), p. 107
Dylan Thomas book Under Milk Wood
Source: " Under Milk Wood http://www.undermilkwood.net/prose_umw1.html" (1954)
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Kurt Vonnegut book The Sirens of Titan
Epilogue “Reunion with Stony” (p. 303)
The Sirens of Titan (1959)
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2014, Address to European Youth (March 2014)
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), VII On the Proportions and on the Movements of the Human Figure
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2009, A World without Nuclear Weapons (April 2009)
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Address to the Legislative Body (December 1813) https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Napoleon%27s_Addresses/Part_V#Address_to_the_Legislative_Body,_December,_1813.; he here echoes the remark attributed to Louis XIV L'état c'est moi ( "The State is I" or more commonly: "I am the State.")
“I don't like people," said Velvet. "… I only like horses.”
Enid Bagnold book National Velvet
Source: National Velvet
“In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine…”
Celia Rees (1949) English author
Source: Witch Child
“Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness.”
Mark Mirabello (1955) American writer
Source: The Cannibal Within
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Burns
“Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.”
Robin Hobb (1952) American fiction writer (pseudonym)
Rufus Wainwright (1973) American-Canadian singer-songwriter and composer
The One You Love
Song lyrics, Want Two (2004)
John Brunner book The Sheep Look Up
February “DISGRACE”
The Sheep Look Up (1972)
Adolf Eichmann (1906–1962) German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer
Benjamin Murmelstein, Theresienstadt: Eichmanns Vorzeige-Ghetto, .
Ahmad Khatami (1960) Iranian ayatollah
Cleric says US seeks velvet revolution http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=16910&sectionid=351020101, Press TV, 20 Jul 2007. <br class="br">Velvet Revolution
Damian Pettigrew Canadian filmmaker
The entire restaurant was at his feet. He was twenty years old now and as thin as Kafka. He was Rome. He had adopted us the way Rome adopts everyone, and we loved him.
On Fellini's final years
Federico Fellini: Sou um Grande Mentiroso (2008)
Captain Beefheart (1941–2010) musician
Pena, sung by Jeff Cotton, better known as Antennae Jimmy Semens
Trout Mask Replica (1969)
Roger Ebert (1942–2013) American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter
Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/blue-velvet-1986 of Blue Velvet (19 September 1986) <br class="br">Reviews, One-star reviews
Jean Froissart (1337–1405) French writer
Et, se venons tout d'un père et d'une mere, Adam et Eve, en quoi poent il dire ne monstrer que il sont mieux signeur que nous, fors parce que il nous font gaaignier et labourer ce que il despendent? Il sont vestu de velours et de camocas fourés de vair et de gris, et nous sommes vesti de povres draps. Il ont les vins, les espisses et les bons pains, et nous avons le soille, le retrait et le paille, et buvons l'aige. Ils ont le sejour et les biaux manoirs, et nous avons le paine et le travail, et le pleue et le vent as camps, et faut que de nous viengne et de nostre labeur ce dont il tiennent les estas.
Book 2, p. 212.
Froissart is again quoting John Ball.
Chroniques (1369–1400)
“A final splash plops … all water-movement ceases and the screen is a black velvet void.”
Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director
Final words of the published script.
Prospero's Books
Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907) German artist
note in her Journal, 3 June, 1902; as quoted in Paula Modersohn-Becker, the Letters and Journals, ed. Günter Busch and Liselotte von Reinken (1998), p. 278
1900 - 1905
Variant: Someday I must be able to paint truly remarkable colors. Yesterday I held in my lap a wide, silver-gray satin ribbon which I edged with two narrower black, patterned silk ribbons. And I placed on top of these a plump, bottle-green velvet bow. I'd like to be able to paint something one day in those colors.
Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) English novelist and poet
Charlotte Brontë, on attending The Great Exhibition of 1851. The Brontes' Life and Letters, (by Clement King Shorter) (1907)
“5878. You cannot make Velvet out of a Sow's Ear.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Brigham Young (1801–1877) Latter Day Saint movement leader
Journal of Discourses 3:222 (March 2, 1856)
1850s
Alan Keyes (1950) American politician
Renew America rally in Orem, Utah, March 8, 2000. http://renewamerica.us/archives/speeches/00_03_08utah.htm. <br class="br">2000
“I slowly strangle my enemies with a velvet glove.”
Pietro Badoglio (1871–1956) Italian general during both World Wars and a Prime Minister of Italy
Io i miei nemici li strangolo lentamente col guanto di velluto.
Quoted in "Italienisch-ostafrika(1936-1941)" - Page 18 - by Stefan Plenk - 2008
Stevie Nicks (1948) American singer and songwriter, member of Fleetwood Mac
(on the inspiration for "Gypsy") Leah Greenblatt, "Stevie Nicks On Her Favorite Songs: A Music Mix Exclusive", http://music-mix.ew.com/2009/03/31/stevie-nicks-in/ Entertainment Weekly, 31 March 2009
Richard Wurmbrand (1909–2001) Romanian Christian minister of Jewish descent
If Prison Walls Could Speak (1972)
“The concept of a velvet revolution in Iran should not be considered as groundless fear.”
Mohammad Javad Zarif (1960) Iranian politician
18 November 2008, According to Archived copy, 2015-07-06, yes, https://archive.is/20120908203416/http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/75784.html, 8 September 2012, dmy-all http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/75784.html, <br class="br">Interview to CNN, Revolution
“John Cale is fantastic, and he made the sound of the Velvet Underground.”
John Cale (1942) Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer
Jayne County, attributed without citation at About Cale, xs4all.nl, 16 November 2012 http://werksman.home.xs4all.nl/cale/quotes/quote_others.html,
“Under an arch o’ bramble
Saftly she goes,
Dark broon een like velvet,
Cheeks like the rose.”
Helen Cruickshank (1886–1975) British poet
In Glenskenno Woods
Antonio Fresco (1983) American DJ, music producer, and radio personality
Written by Antonio Fresco, Jonn Hart, and Clayton William <br class="br">Song lyrics, Blow It https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Clayton-William-Jonn-Hart-Antonio-Fresco/Blow-It 2015
Marek Forgáč (1974) Slovak bishop
Source: Auxiliary Bishop of Košice: Pope comes to strengthen the faith https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2021-09/auxiliary-bishop-of-kosice-pope-comes-to-strengthen-the-faith.html (13 September 2021)